You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over. — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
We did very little improvisation on camera, and once in a while we did. — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny. — Kristen Wiig Copy Share Image
If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation. — Henry Threadgill Copy Share Image
The biggest thing that comes out of improv that gets built on is just character traits. You know, for me the singing… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation. — David Antin Copy Share Image
The trouble with improv is that it is often about being funny in the moment without any real consideration for the bigger… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas. — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
With 'Slave Ambient', I was writing things on top of loops. Now I really get the structure of the song down, but… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
Here's our shtick line to describe our music: It's our garage band attempt at our appreciation of jazz improvisation through the reality… — John Popper Copy Share Image
I think I'm going to venture into the futuristic, semi sci-fi love story land, but still in my style of improvisation. — Drake Doremus Copy Share Image
The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely… — Lucien Bourjeily Copy Share Image
Everyone's encouraged to put things in their own words, to discover new things. So there's definitely an element of dynamic improvisation, for… — Steve Zissis Copy Share Image
What people think improvisation is and non-improvisation is, it's nothing to do with what you like or dislike. It's all about how… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
I've been singing since I was 5 years old. Not in-the-church-thing kind of way. I always made up music. Since I was… — Cassandra Wilson Copy Share Image
I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to do is to reverse this… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I had two starts, really. The first was going to the Italia Conti stage school, aged 15. I'd gone to sing, but… — Lesley Manville Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
I teach a graduate seminar called "Theorizing Improvisation" that is pretty interdisciplinary, but really makes students deal with black studies seriously. A… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
I honestly would tell anyone young to start looking at stories and learning story, because I think that’s the next step after… — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
As an improviser you need to experience the moment- and that includes everything in the moment. Observe the people around you-the bandleader,… — Pat Martino Copy Share Image
“The greatest thing I learned while taking classes at Second City was the very first thing they taught: 'Yes, and...'. In improv,… — Jason Seiden Copy Share Image
When you improvise on the spot, people are very reluctant to have soft moments or quiet moments or sad moments because they're… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
It's the most terrifying thing for me, improv. It's a complete lack of control of both narrative and performance. Once you let… — Cory Michael Smith Copy Share Image
When you do improv, you're everything. You're a performer, writer, and director, because you're moving the scene in the direction you want… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned. — Michael Bay Copy Share Image
Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation. — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
The idea of just improvising and riffing can sometimes be at the expense of story. — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
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